We received our Spot Satellite Messenger this week. I spent some time this weekend working with their sharing interface to set up a Google Map that will show our current/past locations on the home page of our website.

The XML parser I wrote for pulling data/caching data from third parties is working out really well. We are currently using it to pull a feed of recent photos from Flickr recent blog entries from Blogger and now recent locations from FindMeSpot.

For the more technically oriented:

If you purchase one of these units and would like to pull an XML feed of your recent locations this is how.

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Hey thereI'm trying doing what you write in the text here - but as you also did doing it myself not using 3rd party stuff or Iframe... I have a Google Map myself which I want to show Spot data on - right now I can read GPX-files and show those tracks, but I wonder how you made you're XML parser there read the Spot XML - have you any post on this.. Is it JavaScript, PHP, ASP e.g.? I just use JavaScript but have experience with ASP but the GPX stuff was a script I got not made myself, but I don't think I can get it to read data from Spot, so how did you do this.. A little bit of help if I so may ask will be greatly appreciated. Thanks